[house/Detroit techno style] Silk Purse

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rorystorm
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Post 15 Nov 2024



A few weeks ago the Korg Opsix I bought last year finally showed up and it's a fine, fine instrument. It's also quite complicated so I decided to use it to make a bunch of tracks so I could learn its ins and outs. tbh I feel like I've still only scratched the surface. I took the opportunity to do a thing I've been wanting to do for a while, which is to make a bunch of stuff in the style of early Detroit techno - Derrick May in particular, with the caveat that I know he's not a particularly great human being. Anyway, so even though there's a lot of stuff here most of them are quite short and minimal. I used the Softube T-SAR as a send for the drums to get that late 80s/early 90s bright reverb sound and mixed it using Strings of Life as a reference track so that gives you some kind of idea of where it's coming from. I used Bassline Generator for a lot of the basslines, and Beat Map for drum programming, particularly in the later tracks - something I don't normally do but also something I've wanted to try out for a while - Bassline Generator turns out to be great for housey basslines so that's something I'll keep in mind for the future.

The cover photo is the intersection of Karangahape Road and Ponsonby Road in central Auckland. Karangahape Road is kind of gentrified now but it used to be the red light district up there, hence the amusing smutty joke.

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jappe
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Post 05 Dec 2024

Pleasant listen; I like when the shakers come in at 1:29.
Focus-boosting music for studying.

rorystorm
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Post Yesterday

jappe wrote:
05 Dec 2024
Pleasant listen; I like when the shakers come in at 1:29.
Focus-boosting music for studying.
Sweet, thanks for listening!

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bitley
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Post Yesterday

Very Craigy, great ideas.

And then I realized there were many tracks — and being the sleep depravated refill programmer that I am I actually fell asleep... while hearing my iPhone play your great music — and got a wonderful half lucid dream where I played all tracks from the ultra modern never seen audio system of a black metallic Porsche Carrera without the roof section, driven on a beautiful summer day at near Turbo volume level ;-) I was discussing the mixes with someone — ah it was a great great dream ;)

PhillipOrdonez
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Post Yesterday

“It’s raining” is dope

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Benedict
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Post Yesterday

Full marks on the pic lol

I have a soft spot for early Acid House like Adamski. Rarely listen but when done right, there is a purity to it.

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rorystorm
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Post Today

bitley wrote:
Yesterday
Very Craigy, great ideas.

And then I realized there were many tracks — and being the sleep depravated refill programmer that I am I actually fell asleep... while hearing my iPhone play your great music — and got a wonderful half lucid dream where I played all tracks from the ultra modern never seen audio system of a black metallic Porsche Carrera without the roof section, driven on a beautiful summer day at near Turbo volume level ;-) I was discussing the mixes with someone — ah it was a great great dream ;)
This is amazing!

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